Home organization ideas

Organization ideas?! Admittedly, strange to hear from me such things. I am not really an organized person, neither in my studies nor at home. However, since we have moved to our new place, I have decided to learn organization skills to put every thing in a right way in a right place. Why? Because I am tired of being messy. I am tired of having a closet that gets untidy every week, and I have a hard time to find a shirt inside the whole mess. I am tired of wearing few clothes for weeks just because I cannot see other ones. It is hard to believe, but one of my main problems with shopping is that I do not know what I should buy. Simply because I really do not remember what I already have in my closet. This is about only one territory. The other one, kitchen, is even more troublesome as my husband does also play a role! He nags about the difficulty of finding a particular ingredient that he is looking for, or about my irresponsibility for replacing empty cans with new ones. The same disorganization problem goes with other stuff from stationery kits---e.g. not finding a pen or a pencil at home while we have tens of them---to our messy important documents. So, I have decided to solve all these problems once in my life---before my new job starts---with learning how other people may organize their houses.

Having watched many instructional videos and having read many blogs, I have learned there are some simple LAWs that I should follow in deciding a place for an object:

• The law of minimum energy. Or, accessibility. When you want to place an object, you should ask, does this place minimize my energy for accessibility to this object? Is this place the shortest path to the object when you want to reach it?
• The law of minimum entropy. Entropy in physics is a measure of predictability. If the entropy of a place is low, it means, you can easily predict what object you can find in that place. The zero entropy for a place means there is only one object in that place. So, this law says that you should minimize the variety of objects in a shelf.
• The law of visibility. Very simple: an object should be visible whether it is a shirt in your closet or a kind of spice in a kitchen shelf.

These organization laws can be implemented in many different ways. The ones that inspired me most are the followings:

Bedroom:
How to organize your drawers (very helpful, especially for socks and underwear)
How to organize your scarves
How to organize your closet (including shoes and jewelry)
How to organize your purses (using over door handbag hanger)

Kitchen:
How to organize your kitchen: see food preparing station, outside of the fridge, and pantry. (I love this blog, I am a follower.)

Office room:
How to organize your stationery kits (again the same blog as above)